rhetor

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Cicero at the time of the delivery was distracted and said almost nothing 160] See the "Dialogue of the Orators," attributed to Tacitus 161] The word "rhetor" signified in Greek simply orator; the Romans used the word in a mistaken sense to designate the men who made a profession of speaking 162] The same reserve must be maintained with regard to the arts as to the literature.

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  1. noun A teacher of rhetoric.
  2. noun An orator.

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  • I am working on a project at the moment on poverty and the visual rhetor. —  Lee's Second Life - "Finding the key"
  • Cicero at the time of the delivery was distracted and said almost nothing 160] See the "Dialogue of the Orators," attributed to Tacitus 161] The word "rhetor" signified in Greek simply orator; the Romans used the word in a mistaken sense to designate the men who made a profession of speaking 162] The same reserve must be maintained with regard to the arts as to the literature. —  History Of Ancient Civilization
  • A rhetor was one who was a master of style. —  Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism
  • Alexius Comnenus, however--for it was the Emperor himself-- knew Agelastes, though rather from his stature and gestures, than his countenance; and could not forbear whispering in his ear, as he passed, the well-known lines, to which the pretended sage's various acquisitions gave some degree of point Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus; omnia novit Graeculus esuriens in caelum, jusseris, ibit." —  Waverley Novels — Volume 12
  • I have burnt all their trees, I have pillaged all their temples, and even to the death of their grandchildren's grandchildren Why, you disclaim like a rhetor!" —  Salammbo
 

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  1. Middle English rether, from Latin rhētor, from Greek rhētōr; see wer-5 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English rethor, from Old French retor, French rhéteur = Italian retore, from Latin rhetor, a teacher of oratory, a rhetorician, also an orator, from Greek ῤήτωρ, a speaker, orator, from ἐρεῖν, είρειν (preterit εῖρηκα; √ Νερ), say, speak: see verb.
 

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